By Ernest Kearney — Victoria Woodhull filled many roles: activist for the sexual liberation of women, a spiritualist con-artist and the first woman to run for President.
In her one-woman show based on Woodhull, Ashley Ford manages to succeed in capturing the many facets of this fascinating woman. Working from a script by Theo Salter, Ford begins by spinning about the stage tinkling a bell to cleanse the space of spirits before she sets about summoning and channeling the ghost of Woodhull with the occasional interruption from other great “dead American” figures.
Ford goes whirling about the stage in a trance and sliding in and out of Woodhull’s history, relating her troubled childhood, her relationship with that capitalist of all capitalists Cornelius Vanderbilt, her feud with the great clergyman Henry Ward Beecher and her campaign to “end the bondage of marriage.”
The show, directed by Sean Harris, achieves that wondrous union of imparting historical fact while being totally entertaining. What more could you ask for.
A GOLD MEDAL
‘The Ecstasy of Victoria Woodhull’
Is playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022
AT
Howard Fine Acting Studio
1320 N Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Thursday, June 9, 2022 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, June 12, 2022 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, June 17, 2022 @ 9:00 PM
Thursday, June 23rd @ 7:00 PM
Running time: 50 minutes
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